The SIMS fitness challenge

I decided to create a fat sim called Maggie Lovebridge and get her to loose weight. In the beginning she looked like this. She was really broad in her waist and hips and she looked like a hippo.

I got Maggie to hang out at the gym full time. She worked her way up from fitness level 1 to 4 but there didn't seem to be any difference in the beginning. She was still very broad looking looking and overweight. 

I almost gave up on her but decided to persevere.

Maggie made lots of good friends at the gym and they encouraged her a lot and not to give up.

And finally after much endurance, she worked her way up to fitness level 10 and see how how she looks like now. All slim and fit but her clothes look rather loose on her. My next target is to get her to increase her skill in dancing and yoga. 

I bet you can't believe that she now looks like this. It all goes to show that if you work hard at your dreams you can achieve it if you have a lot of faith. Maggie is now approaching level 3 of wellness. Let's see how she progresses.

The SIMS loose weight challenge

Couldn't help noticing that some of my Sims were getting fatter. Suzzie below has broader hips after bearing 6 kids. I decided to see if she can loose some weight by going to the gym regularly. I got her to work out till level 5 and look at the difference below. She now has a more defined waist line.

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This is Zac looking really fat after having a rich and good life. His fitness level is only 1 here. 

I got him to work out and work out.

 And now look how much trimmer he looks here. I got him to workout till he reached level 5.

His wife Jennifer is already a level 6 of fitness level. Just look at her tummy below.

And this is Zac getting a sport massage because he had a pulled muscle and was tired.

Olivia - From the Streets to the City and her own mansion

After months of living on the streets, Olivia has finally won a legal case to access her million dollar bank account once again. The first thing she did was to rent a penthouse in the city. Check out the view from her penthouse house below. Look how peaceful she is.

Her penthouse is double storeys and she has all the nice space for privacy. This is level one below.

This is level 2 of her penthouse.

And now Olivia has a nice comfortable bed to sleep in without anyone chasing her out of bed. It's her own warm bed to sleep in.

She can even grill and bbq food while taking in the beautiful view from her balcony.

However living in the city is not all that perfect. The neighbours are very snobbish and rude. The place can be very noisy and she could not get along well with anyone there. The only place to take comfort in is her talking toilet.

The toilet allows her to get a massage while using it and it was becoming more like a friend to her. Just like having Siri talking to you.

It was getting more creepy as Olivia started venting and sharing all her loneliness frustrations with her talking toilet.

And finally the real estate agent found Olivia her dream home. It's a mansion with a place to call her own. More peaceful, no noisy neighbors and she don't have to pay rent any more because the place belongs to her.

Meet The Romantics

I've created a new household consisting of 2 individuals who are die hard romantics. They are filthy rich, unemployed but live in wealthy and comfortable home and they are both very,very good looking. At the first meeting of living together, they are both very attracted to each other. Meet Jennifer Lawrence and Zac Effron in my Sims Story. .

This is Jennifer and Zac having a romantic moment on their first day of living together. Both are very family oriented so the goal is to get them to be married off and have lots and lots of kids.

By the second day, they were out of their first date and boy are they really in love with each other. Watch Zac give Jennifer a rose at the town's nightclub below. Jennifer has agreed to become his girlfriend so they are officially steady.

Here they exchange a very passionate kiss on their first day but it doesn't stop there....

He also proposed to her on their first date!!!!

After the steamy exchange and the successful date, Zac was very drained of energy and hungry. When he got home, he had to slump in bed. But Jennifer is all energetic and started playing computer games. I think I'll get them to speed up their wedding plans so that they can start a family soon.

Sims Get To Work : Owning That Retail Shop

I will try to keep this short as it's quite late in the evening right now.

Owning the retail shop has got nothing to do with having a career. My character got very restless because she has no job. Maintaining a retail shop is hard work. There are so many customers and since they only have one employee, the employees can only do one thing at a time. Employees can help restock items, clean the store, ring up customers and answer questions. In this case, Sathia only employed one worker.

Also, it is possible to live in the shop and put in a bed and kitchen there so that the boss don't have to go home regularly. However, since my character is married, she misses her family and I had to send her home.

Family members can help run the shop but this only applies to adults and teenagers. Kids are not very useful in a store. They can't help so they just run around or sleep in the bed.

Overall, I think that owning a retail store is not for the family sort of person but they can go there as a family and help run the store together.

Look out for the shopping cart bubble above the customer's head. It means that they are ready to buy. It is a lot of hard work to get the store running. I was worried that my character Govinda would die because he was so exhausted, hungry and unhygienic. He went to work with all these needs in deep red. Fortunately, he survived and recovered.

 That's it for now. I might take a break from this game to focus on other things for awhilele before I come back.

Sims 4 Get To Work: Getting a Retail Store

In my last 2 games, I played an oriental family and experimented with the detective profession. And in this game, I've created a new household. This time I have an Indian household consisting of a family of 5.

Meet Govinda Moha who is the head of the family. He works as an astronaut and he is now an intern with Space Y. He is married to Sathia Moses who has a strong sense of business acumen and owns a retail store. They have 3 kids. Jonathan Moha is their teenage son. They also have another younger son Johnny Moses and a daughter, Jennifer Moses.

The purpose of creating this family is to check out the retail store function. But before I began, I wanted to test if it's possible for 2 married Sims to woohoo in the same bed (in the picture below). Well, it worked!!! In my previous games where I ran a legacy, it didn't so I guess it was a computer glitch.

And now for the retail store part. I thought that owning a retail store would be a sort of career but I was wrong. Actually it is possible to still have a job and own a retail shop at the same time but a Sim still needs to be at the store to manage things.

A store does not run on its own. The owner has to be there to open and close the store. To employ staff, one has to click on the cash register and select manage staff, The cash register is also a place to open and close the store, toggle the sale items and other things.

There will be a prompt to transfer funds from the household to the store and back to the household. Once the store is opened, people will come in to browse and chat. Sales can only be made if the picture of  a cart appears on top of the potential customer's head. Then click on the customer to select 'ring up customer'.

Staff has been to be told to ring up customers, engage customers, restock items and clean up the store. I don't know if there is a way to make them independent. Working at the store can be rather long hours. Sathia employed a staff called Gavin Richards and when he had worked for too many hours, he just went home on his own.

Sathia didn't go home until I made her. Otherwise, she simply slept there or cooked there. I'm wondering if it's possible to live in the store and not go home at all.

The picture above shows how her retail store looks like. There is a second story but there are nothing to browse up there.

And when she came home, I found that her kids had gone to the playground to hang out. See the picture below. I've not seen such a playground in my previous games.

In my next game, I will probably explore the retail shop further. I'm thinking of creating more kids in the next few families and maybe even add in some aliens for the fun of it. We'll see about that.

Sims 4 Get To Work: A day in the life of a detective

My character Stanley Low has now gotten a job as a detective. At entry level, he started as a Cadet a the local police station. Look at how handsome he is in uniform here.

For a start, he had to first get a case assignment and assist a veteran detective with a crime scene investigation. This is Stanley using the computer to get his first case assignment.

 

Then after getting his assignment, he has to use a crime map (found in one of the rooms) to get to the crime scene. The crime scene was very confusing. Firstly, I didn't even know what crime or case he got. He just appeared in a house with so many police officers walking around and chatting. Stanley was very distracted. He was feeling dirty and wanted to use the bathroom there to shower. I had to lure him away to get him to interview the folks at the home first.

 

 

This is Stanley gathering evidence and collecting samples. He has to talk to the owners of the home to get a report of what happened. It looks like a robbery had taken place. Look at how comical the officers look sitting on the bed and chatting with the owners. This looks more like a party then a crime scene investigation. Stanley actually didn't know what to do but to copy what the other officers were doing. I guess that is what they mean by assisting a veteran detective? During the investigation, Stanley couldn't take it and actually took a shower in this home!!!!!! That was funny. 

 

 

After getting back to the police station, there were 2 things that he had to do. He had to use a computer to evaluate the evidence.

 



 

 

 

And then he had to use a chemical analyser to evaluate the evidence and track the suspect.  It turns out that the computer has found a possible description of this suspect based on the evidence. He had to go home after that because the work day had ended......

 

On day 2 of his training, he had to get into the community and build his reputation as a friendly protector or a harden authority figure. Plus he had to use his notebook to track and arrest a suspect. (from the earlier robbery I suppose) So he starts off by issuing an APB (All points bulletin). A suspect fitting the APB description has been spotted so he has to go on patrol and talk to the community to find out more.

 

After speaking to the community, it turns out that most people have seen this guy suspect somewhere based on his notebook description. He is male, has short sleeved shirt, is very active. Stanley has to be very careful on who he arrests and or this could lead to negative consequences. This is him talking to the community below.

 



 

So he finally arrests his suspect. Actually its pretty easy to spot a suspect. A potential suspect cannot be 'asked around' and can only be arrested unlike the other street goers.  This is Stanley taking the suspect's fingerprints.

 

 

This is Stanley searching the suspect's body. The suspect is not really under arrest yet because he is walking freely around but he seems obedient enough to stick around and not put up a resistance.

 



 

 



There were other chores such as talking to the chief officer but I haven't figured out who is the chief officer yet. Stanley didn't have time to complete the rest of the duties because he had only 1 hour left till work ends but all the same, he was promoted to officer before going home. Wow! That's only the second day of work. How cool!

Ok before I go, here is a glance the jail cells here. There is a restless prisoner inside on the right of the picture below. On the left, Stanley is busy chatting with his colleagues as his suspect is hanging around in the background.

 

Here is a mini scene taken at the police station.

 

 

I'm kind of tired of Stanley for now. I might create another character next week. Let's see how it goes. 

 

The Sims 4 Spa Retreat and Outdoor Retreat

This is my second Sims 4 blog that I'm starting. I have another blog titled 'The Sims Gossip Channel' where I've been maintaining a family legacy. So far it's been running for 4 generations and I have gotten sick of it for awhile because I want to spend some time exploring the other functions of the Sims 4. So I've started another game where I'm just purely creating characters to test out what my other Sims pack can do.

So far I've purchased the 'Sims 4 get to work', 'The Sims 4 Spa Retreat' and 'The Outdoor Retreat' pack. In my other blog, I've already explored the doctor and scientist profession so I want to try the other professions too.

And instead of just creating white characters, I've decided that I should make my new neighbourhood very multi-racial. So I've created a new family who lives at Oasis Springs, Agave Abode.

Meet Stanley Low and his room mate Ivy Low. They both have a daughter Gillian Low. I had forgotten to select the relationship as spouse so they ended up as room mates. I couldn't change that so I'm stuck with this unmarried couple type of family.

Before getting them jobs, I got them to explore the spa and go on vacation together.  This is Stanley working out at the treadmill in the spa. He's an athlete and he loves working out.

 

This is Stanley practicing his yoga poses. After practicing for a while, he now can meditate, give massage and do various yoga poses.

 

Ivy Low loves to cook. But when I wasn't looking, she had an accident and the stove caught fire. Luckily they had put out the fire in time. This is Ivy looking rather angry, covered in soot as she eats her lunch.

 

Stanley and Ivy decide to go on a vacation retreat at the Granite Falls. This is them cloud gazing outside their lodge.

The lodges at the vacation retreat are quite nice. They look like expensive houses and you have to pay according to the number of days that you choose to stay. This is Stanley and Ivy having a meal together at the lodge.

 

This is the second floor of the lodge.

 

They decide to cloud gaze from their home when they get back.

Stanley here is back at the spa having a fizzy drink. I didn't know you could have a drink there until I saw Ivy grab a glass.

 

And this is Ivy working out on the treadmill while Stanley is pushing his limits on the weights machine.

 

Watch Stanley do a yoga routine here.

 

 

And below is a footage of Stanley getting a massage. It looks very cute! Very amazing huh!

 

 

Ok, so that's about it. In the next blog, I will get Stanley a job as a detective.